There should be some difference in compression rates, not a lot, but there should be some.
Setting the compression to 8 in FLAC doesn't promise to get you X amount of compression, all it does it try harder to find ways of compressing that given audio. The difference in processing tiems between 0 and 8 is quite high (0 being quick, 9 being slow) but the difference in compression is not relative to this :) When you say 25% do you mean the resulting FLAC is 1/4 the size of the original WAV or is it 25% less? The rough average compression you get with FLAC is 50%, some music is more some less, but oer th course of a varied music library it should be roughly 1/2.... ish :) EDIT: Here is a comparison of different lossless codecs as well as FLAC 1.2.0 with different parameters: http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison_all_ratio.html Some highlights: FLAC 1.2.0 (-1) Time: 6:24.51 Compression: 56.97% FLAC 1.2.0 (-8) Time: 26:46.72 Copression: 53.36% -- funkstar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37960 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
